this is awkward. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. we are in the midst of graduation season overflowing as always with advice on how we should live our lives. my next guest may not be a commencement speaker this year, but she has some unique advice especially for millenials and for the rest of us as well. a decade ago, sophia laroso was a dumpster diving, shoplifting community college dropout with a clinical diagnosis of attention deficit disorder. today she is the ceo of a company that does more than 100
million in business annually and she owns a white porsche. how did that transformation happen? sophia is the founder of the on-line clothing store nasty gal and the author of a new book hash tag girlboss. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. how did you go from that dropout to where you are now? well, it s been a long road. i grew up in the suburbs and i was very kind of unhappy with the public school that i was put in and decided that it was setting me up for, like, a very predictable life, which is not what i wanted. i wanted to save the world and i kind of wanted to smash capitalism, and i thought it might be possible. and at a certain point, you know, decided that i was going to smash big corporations by, i don t know, shoplifting from them, which totally didn t pan out. i learned that the hard way and decided that only sustainable hard work and without shortcuts
increase, we re slightly more optimistic. the shooter, jared lee loughner, is due in federal court in phoenix three hours from now. he s a community college dropout who supposedly jotted down notes about his plans for a quote, assassination. so far he s charged with five counts of murder, and attempted murder based on attacks against federal officials. the deal includes a community the dead people include a community outreach aide to congresswoman giffords and a federal district judge john roll. four other people were killed on saturday, including a 9-year-old girl and two people in their 70s. cnn s ted rowlands is at the phoenix courthouse. jessica yellen is at the university medical center in tucson. they are our two at the top. jessica, let s start with you. from the beginning, giffords surgeons said they were very optimistic about her recovery but that we are in a critical period right now. that s right, ali. he said we re not out of the
critical condition. we ve got our most recent briefing about two hours ago. with regard to congresswoman giffords recovery, at this phase in the game no change is good and we have no change. that is to say she is still following those basic commands. on top of that, the ct scans are showing there is no progression of that swelling. we re not out of the woods yet. that swelling can sometimes take three days or five days to maximize. every day that goes by and we don t see an increase we re slightly more optimistic. now the alleged shooter is due in federal court in phoenix two hours from now. there he is. jared lee loughner a community college dropout who supposedly jotted down notes for his plan quote for assassination. he is charged with five counts of murder and attempted murder based on attacks against federal officials. the dead include a community outreach aide to congresswoman giffords and a federal district judge, john roll.